*SOLD OUT* Sudan Archives - THE BPM North America Tour 2026 with Dreamer Isioma and Cain Culto

Sudan Archives has long championed self-will and self-belief: a violinist who learned by ear and from YouTube, a gonzo pop star working outside the mainstream, a deft creator of personal mythology who moved to Los Angeles from Cincinnati, Ohio, to make music fusing her love of the violin and fiddle with contemporary Black underground, all in pursuit of what she calls Orchestral Black Dance Music. Brittney Parks embodies that ideathat following your own muse is the surest route to artistic and personal fulfillment. On her third album, THE BPM, Parks embraces it fully. If her last two albums looked backembodying both goddess and muse on 2019s Athena, writing a punky coming-of-age tale for 2022s Natural Brown Prom QueenTHE BPM imagines a dazzling, chrome-plated future in which we are all tapped into our own sense of rhythm. As she sings on the albums title track and thesis: The BPM is the power. No one can take away your rhythm from you; no one can take away your self-will, says Parks. The ideas she explores on the record ultimately draw back to this one idea. All those things can be your own power if you utilize them right. To get to that place, Parks had to look at her own history. THE BPM taps into her mothers roots in Michigan and her fathers in Illinois; it was partially completed in Chicago and Detroit, embracing the club sounds from those cities while taking in everything from Jersey club to contemporary EDM and experimental beatwork. She decided to Executive Produce the album, so after working up demos, longtime collaborator and manager Ben Dickey produced the album with her, alongside co-production by Eric Terhune and James McCall IV, using additional contributions from her twin sister, her touring band on NBPQ, her Detroit cousins, and friends they brought to sessions there. (The one exception was inviting Chicago-based Black chamber music collective D-Composed to put together a string quartet for the albums anthemic string parts.) After assembling a trusted team, Parks was free to experiment and dig deep into her psyche, knowing she could hand the reins to her collaborators if needed.